To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."